OREANDA-NEWS. In the first three quarters of 2007, Russian Railways invested over 150 billion roubles in its own development, which amounts to about 60% of the total investment planned for the year.


The Company’s major projects include:

Shipping oil to China;

Modernising the rail infrastructure on Sakhalin island;

Express passenger services between St. Petersburg and Buslovskaya and thence to Helsinki;

High-speed passenger services between St. Petersburg and Moscow;

Express passenger services between Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod etc.

Russian Railways is planning to invest a further 110 billion roubles by the end of 2007.